"There is a Japanese pillbox on the east side of the anticline of Heights 3, coordinates 2-7-1, request bomber support!"

On Saipan Island, K Company of the 1st Marine Division of the Tang Army was blocked on the way to attack, and a Japanese pillbox built on an anti-slope plane, with two Type 11 light machine guns spewing out tongues of fire, blocked the attack of K Company.

The SRA tanks of the Tang Army could not move on this anti-slope plane, and the heavy artillery units in the rear had not kept up because the offensive speed of the Tang Army was too fast, and the artillery of the Tang Army battleships in Laolao Bay could not hit this side, and finally the commander of Company K had to request air support.

In the Tang Army, the infantry at the platoon level are equipped with walkie-talkies, and the commander can directly call the naval aviation to provide air support.

Of course, this can't be blamed on the extravagance of the Tang Army, and it's not that the Tang Empire has money and nowhere to spend it. Zhang Meng knows very well that in future wars, commanders will be able to know the operational situation of front-line squads and platoons anytime and anywhere, and will be able to grasp the ever-changing battlefield dynamics at any time and make the fastest and most timely means of dealing with them.

In addition to the main reason for the necessity of war, another reason is that the territorial defense policy of the Tang Empire directly affected its emphasis on the development of the navy and air force, and the army was the weakest among the Tang army. As a result, including the Marine Corps, the total ground combat forces of the Tang Empire were less than 60,000.

According to Zhang Meng's principle that the soldiers are not too expensive, the training level of the Tang Army Marine Corps is flaunted by the Blue Fox Special Service Team. From individual combat power to division and regiment synthesis, they are the most elite troops on Shijie.

There are few people, and it is an elite route. Equipped with any advanced equipment, it cannot be said to be a luxury.

Of course, in the eyes of foreign troops, the expenses of the Tang Army alone are even higher than the expenses of three people in their country, which is too extravagant.

A minute later, two Hellfire heavy carrier-based bombers arrived with a roar and accurately dropped four 500-kilogram aerial bombs on the Japanese pillboxes according to the ground guidance of K Company.

"Boom!"

With a few loud bangs. The Japanese pillbox, which was more than one meter thick, was blown up, and the trees within more than 200 meters of the surrounding area were broken and rocks rolled down. The dust is flying, the smoke is filled, and the sky and the sun are obscured.

The mountains trembled, like an earthquake of magnitude 8. The Tang soldiers of Company K had long been mentally prepared. They all lay in the bunker and did not dare to show their heads for half a minute, because the shock wave of the explosion was very strong, and if they showed their heads slightly, they would be swept away by the air waves, and they were afraid of their lives, which showed how terrible the 500-kilogram aerial bombs were, not to mention the simultaneous explosion of four of them.

The soldiers of the K-Company were quickly covered with layers of dirt, and there was a layer as thick as a thumb. It can be seen that the explosion yield is so strong that it has lifted up more than 2,000 cubic meters of mud, rocks and sand. Extremely terrifying.

"Phew! Is this a fried devil or a mountain? Lao Tzu was almost suffocated to death if he was not crushed to death by the soil! ”

The commander of Company K emerged from the dirt and vented his frustration at the two Hellfire fighters in the sky, as if complaining that they were too 'aggressive'.

The other soldiers of the K Company crawled out of the soil one after another, and several of the soldiers themselves had been buried alive by a large amount of soil, and they could only rely on their comrades to dig them out, and a few were even suffocated, and the medical soldiers hurriedly went up to rescue them.

After a grumbling meal, the soldiers of Company K cautiously rushed onto the anticline.

The Japanese pillbox is gone, and there is a huge crater with a diameter of more than 200 meters, more than 3 meters deep, and it is charred and black, exuding the smell of burning, and the rocks have melted, and it is conceivable that the temperature at the moment of the explosion is extremely terrifying.

"There's no need to search, the little devils are here in the giant pit, and they have obviously been blown to ashes."

"Cremation for free, the ashes of the little devils are sprinkled on your bodies!"

A soldier came to play a prank, and was immediately besieged by the group, which made him shout for help, screaming and not daring to talk nonsense anymore.

At this time, the two Hellfires circled in the sky for a few times, and did not leave until the K Company had recovered and the target had been removed.

The soldiers of Company K looked at each other, and in addition to lamenting that the air force was too strong, they were all suspicious of a problem.

Clearly a loss-making deal, this dilapidated bunker does not seem to be worth the money of four aerial bombs.

When the Tang Army was first built, it was inevitable that there would be many problems. On the issue of excessive bombing, not long after, when the Tang Army held a summing up meeting, a representative of the officers and men at the grassroots level raised it, which immediately aroused the attention of the top level.

In times of war, though, this is inevitable. In order to ensure the timeliness and effectiveness of the campaign tactics, this kind of supersaturation bombing is still tacitly carried out, preferring to spend more money and destroy the target at one time.

The Japanese army did not have many fortifications and garrisons on Saipan, all because the Japanese army did not expect that the Tang Army would win the naval battle, let alone that the Tang Army would come over to seize the island.

It took the Don army nine hours to capture Saipan, and over the next three days they seized the other islands of the Northern Mariana Islands, where all the Japanese and Japanese immigrants were slaughtered, and the number of people was included in the enemy numbers to prevaricate public opinion.

A week later, the Don Marines, under the cover of powerful naval and air firepower, launched an attack on the Japanese troops on the Caroline Islands.

Similarly, the Caroline Islands of less than 200 Japanese troops and more than 500 armed expatriates rose up to resist, but the difference in strength was huge, and in less than two hours, the Japanese positions were razed to the ground by Tang bombers, and then the Caroline Islands lowered the Japanese plaster flag and raised the blue and white eagle flag of the Tang Empire.

The Tang Army seized the Caroline Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Marshall Islands, the former German Imperial colonies entrusted to Japan by the League of Nations, and the Japanese government strongly protested against this and protested against the armed aggression of the Tang Empire at the League of Nations meeting.

The Japanese are really shameless, but they don't know that Tang and Japan are in a state of war, or they attacked the Tang Empire first, and now that they are defeated, they even think of using the League of Nations to put pressure on the Tang Empire.

The Tang Empire is not a member of the League of Nations, because the British government has always considered the Tang Empire to be a member of the British Commonwealth, although they have been forced to allow the Tang Empire to have an independent foreign policy, and they also know that the Tang Empire is an independent country at all, but they have always insisted on maintaining the so-called face of the British Empire.

Of course, this is also an excuse, an excuse for the British government to sit down with the Tang Empire and have a good talk.

The news that the Japanese Combined Fleet was almost completely wiped out by the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire was transmitted back to Britain, and Downing Street was in an uproar.

MacDonald's cabinet convened an emergency meeting to discuss how Britain would deal with the situation after the Tang and Japanese wars, when the main force of the Japanese navy was almost wiped out, the pattern in the Pacific Ocean had changed, and the Tang Empire had risen strongly.

You must know that Britain still has many colonies in the Central and South Pacific, including Australia, New Zealand, and even Singapore and India, which are also under the direct threat of the Tang Empire's navy.

Originally, Britain's enemies in the Pacific were Japan and the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Far East Fleet was almost negligible, but now the Japanese Combined Fleet collapsed, and in its place, the Tang Imperial Navy would become a potential threat to the British Imperial Navy in the next few years.

From the members of the Federation, to potential threats, to potentially formidable threats in the future, this change was due to the outcome of this naval battle.

"The Japanese will not be easily defeated, you can imagine how annoyed and angry they are at the moment, I believe that the Japanese will definitely rebuild the huge combined fleet within three years, and when the time comes, with the strategic depth of the Tang Empire, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist the crazy counterattack of the Japanese."

"The Tang people have already won twice, and that's not a coincidence, it's strength. Please treat the Tang Empire correctly, they are definitely not as simple as you think? ”

Macdonald and Stanley went toe-to-toe. Because Stanley used the Conservative Party's Liliang to promise to lend Zhang Meng a billion pounds without MacDonald's permission, this incident made MacDonald very annoyed, and with the unprecedented victory of the Tang Army, it was even more difficult to let go, he knew that Zhang Meng would become stronger and stronger, but the Conservative Party was constantly helping him become stronger.

Stanley just smiled faintly and said, "Mr. Prime Minister, do you have to be afraid of the rise of the Tang Empire?" Do you think they will be enemies of the British Empire? Don't you know that it was you who defeated me as prime minister with Zhang Meng's funding back then, and you called him a brother and sister, so why do you treat Zhang Meng like an enemy now? Don't you understand the truth that one more enemy has one more wall? ”

Stanley's series of rhetorical questions really made MacDonald a little stunned.

"I'm worried, Zhang Meng is too cunning, he has cheated the Americans for tens of billions of dollars, and now he has trapped the entire Japanese Navy to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, do you think he will stop there? It is quite possible that in the future it will be aimed at us. Especially the billion pounds, I think it's a pit, I can't run yet, but you have to jump into it desperately. ”

Stanley seemed to understand MacDonald's words, and nodded in understanding.

"I don't want to quarrel with you, you always digress, and now we are talking about the reshuffling of the Asian order after Japan loses its combined fleet."

At this time, other cabinet members also said that MacDonald digressed, since a billion pounds had been lent to Zhang Meng, he could not default and want to come back, and now the top priority was how to sort out the new Asian order, obviously the Tang Empire wanted to replace Japan's shili range in Asia, and other countries must be planning to get a piece of the pie at this time, and Britain naturally could not lag behind.

"Okay, let's not talk about this for now, let's get back to business." MacDonald paused, and then said: "My point of view is that we can't let the Tang Empire become bigger, they will be our threat sooner or later, so in the formulation of a new Asian order, we must unite with the United States to suppress the rise of the Tang Empire." ”

"I'm against it!"

Stanley ignored MacDonald's angry eyes and shrugged his shoulders deliberately. That meaning seems to say, if you go to the east, Lao Tzu will go west, how to drop? (To be continued......)